The following letter was transcribed for us by Mike Salmon, mikesalmon@blueyonder.co.uk from his collection of Prince Edward Island Covers.

To His Excellency Lieut General Fanning Lieut Governor of Island Prince Edward Etc.

This Humble Petition of Dembo Suckles Shewith

That your Petitioner is desirous of Settling On the Royalty of Georgetown and therefore Humbly prays that your Excellency will be pleased to give him a Grant of a Town (interlined number 3 in 4th hundred?) and Pasture Lot (interlined Number 52) and that your petitioner will as in Duty Bound (interlined ever) pray.

January 19th, 1803 Dembo Suckils

The outside of the letter reads:
His Excellency
Lieutenant General Fanning
Charlottetown

on the opposite fold reads
Petition of Bembo Suckills (one of many known spelling variations of his name)
Dated 19th January 1803
Executed
9th Sepm 1803
Text overlayed in red over the addressing of the letter....